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UX Tools For Better Thinking
(https://untools.co), a wonderful collection of tools and frameworks to help you solve design problems, make better decisions, resolve conflicts and communicate better — with templates, sheets and useful resources, all neatly put together in one single place by Adam Amran. 👏🏽
Also highly recommended: Playbook For Universal Design (https://lnkd.in/eyXKNJ2D), a fantastic little helper with inclusive … Read the rest
Useful Courses And Workshops For Designers, with free and paid courses, workbooks and certification for UX, design systems, Figma and accessibility ↓
Free UX Course, by UXcel
https://lnkd.in/e2tXqwAg
UX Design Professional Certificate Course, by Google
https://lnkd.in/esA_fT3Q
Free UX Challenges, by UXTools
https://lnkd.in/eb7jkaGc
Accessibility and Forms, by Google
https://web.dev/learn
Free Hackdesign Courses
https://hackdesign.org/
Enterprise Design Thinking course, by IBM
https://lnkd.in/e9P3BM8t
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Why Accessibility Overlays Are Not A Good Idea (https://lnkd.in/eb6MX3Uh), a thorough overview of why accessibility overlays are problematic and how to argue with business about why it’s better to implement an accessible solution instead. By Ruben Ferreira Duarte.
To many companies, accessibility overlays feels like a simple, reliable and almost magical way to solve the “accessibility problem” for … Read the rest
How To Design For Deaf People. Practical guidelines to keep in mind for 466 million people who have some kind of deafness ↓
✅ 90–95% of deaf people come from hearing families.
✅ Deafness often occurs due to exposure to loud noises.
✅ Not only at birth; emerges with age, disease, accidents.
🚫 You can see only around 30% of … Read the rest
How To Design Data Tables In Figma (+ Figma Kit) (https://lnkd.in/eAVuzbfw), a neat little guide on how to design better data tables from scratch — with auto layout, variants, responsive behavior and a friendly Figma kit that goes along with it. Neatly put together and shared by Jordan Hughes.
Complete guide: https://lnkd.in/eAVuzbfw
Free Figma kit: https://lnkd.in/egVss3qU
Useful resources:
Goldman Sachs … Read the rest
Design System In 90 Days Canvas (FigJam template) (Link) , with useful prompts to get a design system up and running — and adopted! — in 90 days, for small and large organizations that are building a design system or plan to set up one. Kindly shared by Dan Mall as a part of the Design System University. … Read the rest
A deep dive on why projects always take longer and a framework to improve future estimation
If you’re like me, you’re maybe a jobbing dev taking on contracts and occasionally your own gigs (and by-and-large this works out OK) but maybe you secretly hate yourself for being terrible at estimation, and wish … Read the rest
how to estimate better and how to be prepared when things go sideways. By Dave Stewart.
✅ “Planned work” may be as little as 20% of the total project effort.
✅ “Extra work” increases proportionally to the complexity of the work.
✅ Account for changes (20%) and unexpected slowdowns (15%).
✅ Access to data, docs, tools, people is a … Read the rest
UX research requires knowledge and understanding of many jargon terms. Use this glossary as a reference as you delve into research.
When to Use Which User-Experience Research Methods
Summary: Modern day UX research methods answer a wide range of questions. To help you know when to use which user research method, each of 20 methods is mapped across 3 dimensions and over time within a typical product-development process.